{"id":491,"date":"2013-05-17T15:14:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T19:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempwolpert\/?page_id=491"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:06:06","slug":"cla6930-1208","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempwolpert\/courses\/cla6930-1208\/","title":{"rendered":"CLA 6930: The Athenian Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempwolpert\/files\/klepsydra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"776\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempwolpert\/files\/klepsydra.jpg\" alt=\"klepsydra\" class=\"wp-image-338\" style=\"width:326px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempwolpert\/files\/klepsydra.jpg 776w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempwolpert\/files\/klepsydra-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempwolpert\/files\/klepsydra-200x148.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fall 2012<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Time and Location<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">W Period 8-10, 125 Dauer Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Course Description<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An examination of the political, social, and cultural institutions of the Athenian democracy, with particular attention to recent scholarly methods, approaches, and theories.\u00a0 Topics include the origin and development of the Athenian democracy; political organizations and social structures; democracy and economic production; gender, sexuality, and citizenship; democratic discourse and ideology; and democracy and the arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prerequisites<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This graduate seminar is open to all graduate students in Classics and graduate students in related fields who have taken at least one undergraduate course on ancient Athens or ancient Greek history. Undegraduate may not enroll in the seminar without Dr. Wolpert&#8217;s consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Required Texts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Davidson, James,\u00a0<em>Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical\u00a0Athens<\/em>\u00a0(New York: HarperPerennial, 1999).<\/li>\n<li>Hansen, Mogens H.,\u00a0<em>The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes: Structures, Principles, and Ideology<\/em>\u00a0(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ets.umdl.umich.edu\/cgi\/t\/text\/text-idx?c=acls;cc=acls;idno=heb01458.0001.001;view=toc\">Ober, Josiah,\u00a0Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People\u00a0(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989).<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Raaflaub, Kurt, Josiah Ober, and Robert Wallace,\u00a0<em>Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece<\/em>\u00a0(Berkeley: University of California, 2007).<\/li>\n<li>Winkler, John, J, and Zeitlin, Froma I., eds.,\u00a0<em>Nothing to Do with Dionysos?\u00a0 Athenian Drama in Its Social Context<\/em>\u00a0(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional Readings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Required articles are available either through Sakai or Ares.<\/li>\n<li>Required Books are on Reserve.<\/li>\n<li>BIBLIOGRAPHY\u00a0(useful to consult as you begin research for your term paper).\u00a0 This list is not exhaustive nor is it expected that you will be able to read all items during the course of the semester; rather it is intended to show you the main questions and topics on the Athenian democracy that are currently under investigation and provide you a starting point for your own research.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Course Requirements<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Class Participation (20%)<\/li>\n<li>Class Presentation (20%)<\/li>\n<li>Term Paper (60%), approximately 15-20 pages, due on December 5<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grading Scale<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A = 93-100<br>\nA- = 90-92.9<br>\nB+ = 87-89.9<br>\nB = 83-86.9<br>\nB- = 79-82.9<br>\nC+ = 75-78.9<br>\nC = 72-74.9<br>\nC- = 69-71.9<br>\nD+ = 66-68.9<br>\nD = 62-65.9%<br>\nD- = 60-61.9<br>\nE &lt; 59<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Schedule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PART 1: POLITICS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 22: Introduction<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 29: Fourth-Century Athens<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hansen, chapters 6-12<\/li>\n<li>Hansen, &#8220;The Political Powers of the People&#8217;s Court in Fourth-Century Athens,&#8221; in O. Murray and S. Price, eds.,\u00a0<em>The Greek City from Homer to Alexander<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford 1990) 215\u201343 (available on Sakai)<\/li>\n<li>Ober, 141-48, 299-304<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">September 5: Origins of the Athenian Democracy<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hansen, chapters 2-3<\/li>\n<li>Raaflaub et al.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">September 12: Democracy and War<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Finley, M.I, &#8220;The Fifth-Century Athenian Empire: A Balance Sheet,&#8221; in <em>Imperialism in the Ancient World<\/em>, eds. P.D.A. Garnsey, P.D.A. and C.R. Whittaker. (Cambridge 1978) 103\u201326 (available on Sakai)<\/li>\n<li>Millett, Paul, &#8220;Patronage and Its Avoidance in Classical Athens,&#8221; in <em>Patronage in Ancient Society<\/em>,\u00a0 ed. A. Wallace-Hadrill (London and New York 1989)\u00a0 15\u201347 (available on Sakai)<\/li>\n<li>Pritchard, David, ed.,<em>\u00a0War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens<\/em> (Cambridge 2010), chapters 1-3, 9, 15 (to be circulated)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>PART 2: SOCIETY<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">September 19: Mass and Elite<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ober, chapters 1, 3-7<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">September 26: Free and Slave<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Finley, M.I., &#8220;Was Greek Civilization Based on Slave Labour?&#8221;\u00a0<em>Historia<\/em>\u00a08 (1959) 145\u201364 (available on Sakai)<\/li>\n<li>Osborne, Robin, &#8220;The Economics and Politics of Slavery at Athens,&#8221; in Anton Powell, ed.,\u00a0<em>The Greek World<\/em>\u00a0(London, 1995), 27\u201343 (availble on Sakai)<\/li>\n<li>Jameson, Michael, &#8220;Agriculture and Slaves in Classical Athens,&#8221;\u00a0<em>CJ<\/em>\u00a073 (1977\/78) 122\u201345 (available on Sakai)<\/li>\n<li>Wood, Ellen, &#8220;Agricultural Slavery in Classical Athens,&#8221;\u00a0<em>AJAH<\/em>\u00a08 (1983) 1\u201347 (available on Sakai)<\/li>\n<li>Gagarin, M., &#8220;The Torture of Slaves in Athenian Law,&#8221;\u00a0<em>CP<\/em>\u00a091 (1996) 1\u201318 (available on Sakai)<\/li>\n<li>Hunter, Virginia,\u00a0\u00a0<em>Policing Athens: Social Control in the Attic Lawsuits, 420-320 B.C.<\/em>\u00a0(Princeton 1994) chapters 3, 6 (available on Sakai)<\/li>\n<li>Ober, Josiah,\u00a0&#8220;Quasi-Rights: Participatory Citizenship and Negative Liberties in Democratic Athens,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Social Philosophy and Policy\u00a0<\/em>17 (2000) 27\u201361 (available on Sakai)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">October 3: Women<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Cohen, David, &#8220;Seclusion, Separation, and the Status of Women in Classical Athens,&#8221;\u00a0<em>G&amp;R<\/em>\u00a036 (1989) 3\u201315 (available on Sakai)<\/li>\n<li>Hunter, Virginia,\u00a0\u00a0<em>Policing Athens: Social Control in the Attic Lawsuits, 420-320 B.C.<\/em>\u00a0(Princeton 1994) chapter 1 (available on Sakai)<\/li>\n<li>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-, &#8220;Women&#8217;s Authority in Classical Athens: The Example of Keloboule and her Son (Dem. 27-29),&#8221;\u00a0<em>EMC\/CV<\/em>\u00a08 (1989) 39-48.<\/li>\n<li>Foxhall, Lin, &#8220;Women&#8217;s Ritual and Men&#8217;s Work in Ancient Athens,&#8221; in R. Hawley and B. Levick, eds.,\u00a0<em>Women in Antiquity: New Assessments<\/em>\u00a0(London 1995) 97\u2013110 (available on Sakai))<\/li>\n<li>Johnstone, Steven, &#8220;Cracking the Code of Silence: Athenian Legal Oratory and the Histories of Slaves and Women, in S. Joshel and S. Murnaghan, eds.,\u00a0<em>Women and Slaves in\u00a0Greco-Roman Culture<\/em>\u00a0(London 1998) 221\u201335 (available in Dauer Hall)<\/li>\n<li>Wolpert, Andrew, &#8220;Lysias 1 and the Politics of the Oikos,&#8221;\u00a0<em>CJ<\/em>\u00a096 (2001) 416\u201324 (available on Sakai)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>PART 3: CULTURE<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">October 10: Food, Sex, and Drinking<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Davidson<\/li>\n<li>Winker, John, &#8220;Laying Down the Law: The Oversight of Men&#8217;s Behavior in Classical Athens, In D. Halperin, J.J. Winker, and F.I. Zeitlin, eds.,\u00a0<em>Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World\u00a0<\/em>(Princeton 1989) 171\u2013209 (on Ares)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">October 17: Drama<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Winkler and Zeitlin, chapters by Winkler, Zeitlin, Goldhill, Lissarrague, Henderson<\/li>\n<li>Rhodes, P.J. &#8220;Nothing to Do With Democracy: Athenian Drama and the\u00a0Polis,&#8221;<em>JHS<\/em>\u00a0123 (2003) 104\u201319.<\/li>\n<li>Mills, Sophie, &#8220;Affirming Athenian Action: Euripides&#8217; Portrayal of Military Activity and the Limtis of Tragic Instruction,&#8221; in David Pritchard,\u00a0<em>War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge 2010) 163\u2013183 (to be circulated)<\/li>\n<li>Konstan, David, &#8220;Ridiculing a Popular War: Old Comedy and Militarism in Classical Athens,&#8221; in David Pritchard,\u00a0<em>War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens<\/em> (Cambridge 2010) 184\u2013200 (to be circulated)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">October 24: Art<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Coulson, W.D.E., Palagia, O., Shear, T.L., Shapiro, H.A., Frost, F.J., eds.,\u00a0<em>The Archaeology of Athens and Attica under the Democracy<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford 1994) chapter by Osborne\u00a0 (to be circulated)<\/li>\n<li>Boedeker, D., and Raaflaub, K.A., eds.,\u00a0<em>Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge, MA 1998) chapters by Morris, Csapo and Miller, and H\u00f6lscher (to be circulated)<\/li>\n<li>Neils, Jennifer,\u00a0The Parthenon Frieze\u00a0(Cambridge 2001) 173\u2013201<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PART 4: TERM PAPER<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">October 31: Topics<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Discuss Research<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">November 7: Outline<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Discuss Drafts<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">November 14: First Draft Due<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00a0Presentations<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">November 28: First Drafts Returned<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Presentations and Individual Meetings<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 5: Final Draft Due<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Presentations<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Course Policies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Students are expected to complete all requirements on the specified dates and will not be granted an alternate date unless they have an acceptable reason for their absence as specified in the undergraduate catalog, fulfill the conditions described therein, and provide timely notification (see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.ufl.edu\/ugrad\/current\/regulations\/info\/attendance.aspx\">Attendance Policies<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>For each unexcused absence, there will be a 5% reduction in the final course grade.<\/li>\n<li>Use of mobile phones and computers are prohibitted during class.\u00a0 Refusal to comply will result in immediate dismissal from the classroom.<\/li>\n<li>Students are required to be honest in their coursework. Any act of academic dishonesty will be reported to Student Judicial Affairs, and may result in failure of the assignement in question and\/or the course.\u00a0 See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sccr.dso.ufl.edu\/policies\/student-honor-code-student-conduct-code\/\">Honor Code<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Students seeking special accomommodations, need to submit such requests to the Disability Resource Center prior to the deadline of the scheduled requirement, and preferably as early in the Semester as possible.\u00a0 For further information, see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/disability.ufl.edu\/\">Disability Resource Center<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Students facing difficulties completing the course or who are in need of counseling or urgent help may call the on-campus counseling center: 352-392-1575, or the student mental health center: 352-392-1171.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-491","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempwolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempwolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempwolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempwolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempwolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempwolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempwolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/491\/revisions\/1530"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempwolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/tempwolpert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}